As they walked through the streets of Qaraqosh, participants sang Palm Sunday hymns in both Arabic and Syriac and waved olive branches. Thousands celebrate the beginning of Holy Week on April 13, 2025 ...

Each year, Palm Sunday marks the start of the Christian Holy Week leading up to Easter. In 2025, it will take place on April 13. The day commemorates when Jesus made his triumphant arrival into ...

Colored eggs, overflowing baskets and adorable bunnies tend to steal the spotlight on Easter. But the real focus for Christians, of course, is the big day itself and the entire week leading up to it.

Palm Sunday has the stuff that makes children's church programs so fun: palm branches, singing and shouting, a donkey and more. Yet these things also carry the weight of symbolic significance for ...

Holy Week kicks off this weekend and Christians are preparing for Palm Sunday, which honors the last days of Jesus, his trial and crucifixion. Palm Sunday is celebrated on the first day of Holy Week, ...

Churches in Palm Beach will mark Holy Week — which begins this weekend with Palm Sunday and climaxes with Easter on April 20 — with services and other other events. Palm Sunday services at the Royal ...

Palm Sunday commemorates the Christian belief in the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, when he was greeted by cheering crowds waving palm branches that they set out on the ground along his path ...

From the jubilation of Palm Sunday to the despair of Maundy Thursday to the grief of Good Friday to the joy of Easter Sunday, music helps worshippers navigate the emotional journey of Holy Week.

For the second year in a row, few foreign pilgrims were in attendance at the traditional Palm Sunday procession from the Mount of Olives into the Old City of Jerusalem due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas ...

“Entry of Christ into Jerusalem,” by Anthony van Dyck, 1617 on Wikipedia. A Homily for Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion Readings: Luke 19:28-40 Isaiah 50:4-7 Philippians 2:6-11 Luke 22:14—23:56 The ...

POTTSTOWN — Zion’s United Church of Christ, Hanover and Chestnut streets, welcomes all to Palm Sunday services, 10:15 a.m. Sunday in the sanctuary. Rev. Dr. Martha Smith, bridge pastor, will officiate ...

Palm Beach's three churches are marking Holy Week leading up to Christianity's most important holiday, Easter, which marks the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. It starts March 24 — Palm ...